NEWS: Fearless Featured on USAToday.com
Fearless: The Undaunted Courage and Ultimate Sacrifice of Navy SEAL Team SIX Operator Adam Brown by Eric Blehm was featured in a round-up of Navy SEAL memoirs on USAToday.com. Go here to view the list.
Agape
Agape is not a feeling you get when you encounter someone you find lovable; instead, it involves choosing to express love evenor perhaps especiallywhen you encounter someone unlovable. It is all about self-denial rather than self-fulfillment; it’s focused on giving rather than on receiving.
I don’t know about you, but I feel hopelessly incapable of that kind of love. It seems an almost impossible thing for anyone but God to love in this way, and yet He makes no small thing of calling us to do just that. Jesus said, “Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples” (John 13:35, nlt). What a high calling! Agape is the number one evidence to this world that we are His! No wonder He planted in our hearts a longing for such a love.
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DOWNLOAD: Memory Verses for Girls with Swords by Lisa Bevere
As you read Lisa Bevere’s new book, Girls with Swords, commit to memory Bible verses that correspond with each chapter and help you apply what you’ve read.
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Quotes on Love
My beloved friends, let us continue to love each other since love comes from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and experiences a relationship with God. The person who refuses to love doesn’t know the first thing about God, because God is loveso you can’t know him if you don’t love. This is how God showed his love for us: God sent his only Son into the world so we might live through him. This is the kind of love we are talking aboutnot that we once upon a time loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to clear away our sins and the damage they’ve done to our relationship with God.
My dear, dear friends, if God loved us like this, we certainly ought to love each other. No one [ … ]
Free to Love
“We would love others without first demanding that they conform to our requirements or somehow become acceptable to us. We would not be in competition with anyone else, feeling pressure to look better than we are or hurrying so we’ll be first in line to get a reward. God has plenty of blessings for all his children, and he will still have blessings left to give away whenever we get there. God’s being good to someone else doesn’t mean he will have nothing left to give us later on.
When we learn this, we can love God with everything we are; we can love ourselves and love our neighbors the way we love God. When this happens, we keep the Great Commandments. We are then living in the “yes” of Christ, and we can freely share his “yes” with everyone [ … ]
NEWS: “Wishing on Willows” Author Featured in Publishers Weekly!
Wishing on Willows author Katie Ganshert featured in Publishers Weekly Religion Update!
Discover how a missions trip to Kenya changed her life…and her connection to the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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The Rope of Acceptance
“The Bible reveals strategies for keeping relational mountains small and manageable. In order to persevere and improve our relationships, we first must connect with the rope of acceptance. Rock climbers use a technique with ropes called belaying. It involves securing a climber to a rope so he doesn’t fall too far if he slips off the rock. Similarly, we can’t climb to new heights safely if we don’t connect with a rope of acceptance. “Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God” (Romans 15:7). One of our greatest problems in relationships is that we’re always trying to change the people we’re relating to. To accept others means that we stop trying to change them and we start trying to understand them.”
Excerpted from One Month to Live by Kerry and Chris [ … ]